XIII SS Army Corps

The XIII SS Army Corps was a German Waffen-SS corps that was active from August 1944 to May 1945 during World War II. The division was formed at Breslau in Silesia, and it was moved to France to fight against the Western Allies. By the end of April 1945, the corps had been pushed back into Czechoslovakia, where it encountered the US 97th Infantry Division. Others fought north of the Danube River near Regen, and the corps was destroyed in May 1945.